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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






2. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






3. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






4. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






5. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






6. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






7. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






8. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






9. The time and place of a story or play.






10. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






12. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






13. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






14. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






15. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






16. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






17. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






20. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






21. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






22. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






23. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






24. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






25. The selection of words in a literary work.






26. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






27. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






28. The organizational form of a literary work.






29. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






30. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






31. Broken down acts.






32. A three-line stanza.






33. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






35. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






36. The main character of a literary work.






37. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






38. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






39. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






40. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






43. A four line stanza in a poem.






44. The dictionary meaning of a word.






45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






46. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






47. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






48. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






49. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






50. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.